Emannel Geibel, a German poet, born in Lubeck, Oct. 18, 1815. He became associated in 1836 at Berlin with Chamisso, Gaudy, and Kugler, and was professor of aesthetics in the university of Munich from 1852 to 1868. Of his Gedichte und Gedankenblatter, the 9th edition appeared in 1868; of his Neue Gedichte, the 12th, and of his Juniuslieder, the 18th, in 1870; of his Gedichte, the 69th in 1871; and of his political poems, Heroldsrufe, the 4th in 1871. His principal dramatic poems are Brunhild (1857) and Sophonisbe (1868).